2 Late one afternoon, David got up from taking a nap and was walking on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. 3 David sent someone to find out about the woman. He was told, "It’s Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, and wife of Uriah the Hittite." 4 David sent messengers to fetch her. When she came to him, he had sex with her. (Now she had just purified herself from having her period.)11:4. The Hebrew refers to "uncleanliness." Afterwards she went back home. 5 Bathsheba became pregnant and sent a message to David to tell him, "I’m pregnant."
14 In the morning David wrote Joab a letter, and gave it to Uriah to take to him. 15 In the letter, David told Joab, "Put Uriah right in the front where the fighting is worst, and then pull back behind him so that he’ll be attacked and killed." 17 When the town’s defenders came out and attacked Joab, some of David’s men were killed, including Uriah the Hittite.
27 Once the period of mourning was over, David sent for her to be brought to his palace, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But what David had done was evil in the Lord’s sight.